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Daniel Gardner, MD

Areas of Expertise: Psychiatry, General

No. of cases deposed in or testified, in last 4 years: 9
Years in Practice/of Experience: 38

Services

Dr. Gardner treats  psychiatric problems resulting from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).  He consults with patients, their families, case managers, life care planners, and brain injury rehabilitation programs. He reviews brain injury treatment plans, focusing on the appropriate use of psychotropic medications, psychotherapy, and brain injury rehabilitation. He also serves as an expert witness in TBI medical-legal cases. 

Dr. Gardner has been in the private practice of psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis since 1977. He is currently Medical Director of Hidden Valley Ranch Rehabilitation Services, a brain injury residential program in Ramona, California. He also consults with Learning Services, a brain injury residential program in Escondido, California and with Paradigm Management Services, which provides solutions for complex medical management.  He is a member of the Professional Advisory Council, San Diego Brain Injury Foundation. 

Dr. Gardner was formerly Medical Director of NeuroCare's post-acute residential and community-based brain injury rehabilitation programs in Ramona and San Diego, California. He has also consulted with other brain injury rehabilitation and residential programs. He was Editor, Brain Injury Medication Update email newsletter and Associate Editor, Brain Injury Update newsletter.

For many years, Dr. Gardner was a psychiatric consultant at Sharp Memorial Hospital and Sharp Rehabilitation Center, where he focused on the psychological aspects of acute and chronic physical illness, as well as physical disabilities including traumatic brain injury, stroke, and spinal cord injury.

Dr. Gardner graduated from the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University Medical School. 
He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSD School of Medicine; Faculty and Executive Committee member, San Diego Psychoanalytic Center; and former Council member, San Diego Psychiatric Society.  He has been selected by his physician peers as one of the Top Doctors in San Diego.
 
 

About Dr. Gardner
Dan Gardner, M.D
Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Distinguished Life Fellow, American 
Psychiatric Association
Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSD Medical School    

In Medical Practice Since 1977


Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

  • Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
  • Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
  • Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSD School of Medicine  


AWARDS:

Selected by physician peers as one of San Diego's Physicians of Exceptional Excellence (Top Doctors), San Diego Magazine, 2004, 2005, 20062010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2015. 

Selected by peers to 2011 San Diego Super Doctors.

BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Psychiatry)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society

Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association.

Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD School of Medicine

Faculty and Member, Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, San Diego Psychoanalytic Center

Medical Director, Hidden Valley Ranch Rehabilitation Services

American Association for Technology in Psychiatry

American Medical Association 

San Diego County Medical Society

Member, Professional Advisory Council and Past Board Member, San Diego Brain Injury Foundation

Member, Community Advisory Committee, Operation Family Caregiver 

Member, Advisory Board, SanDiegoPsych.com

Past Member, Council, San Diego Psychiatric Society

Past Section Head, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Scripps Clinic San Diego. 

Past Medical Director, NeuroCare San Diego, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Programs

Past Member, Professional Advisory Board, The Wellness Community, San Diego

Past Member, Board of Directors, The Center for the Prevention of Medication Side Effects

Past Member, Functional Review Panel, Physicians Foundations Health Information Technology

EDUCATION and TRAINING:

Undergraduate: Northwestern University, Bachelor of Science in Medicine

Medical School: Northwestern University Medical School, M.D. (Honors Program in Medical Education)

Internship: Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, Internal Medicine

Residency: University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, Psychiatry 

Chief Resident, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service, University Hospital, San Diego, CA

Post-Residency: Graduate, Adult Psychoanalysis, San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Contact

Daniel Gardner, MD
PO Box 2275
Del Mar, California
921014 US
 
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